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welcome to the good news ride home for thursday June 18th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

Ahead of Juneteenth, a bit of background on its origins and the fight to make it a federal holiday.

The inventor of the Segway has a plan to mass produce human organs, the productivity life hack that lets you

complain as much as you want, and the Rickroll to end all Rickrolls that happened just

yesterday. Here is your daily dose of good news. Tomorrow is June 10th, which celebrates the day two and a half years after the

Emancipation Proclamation was signed that enslaved people in Texas were finally informed of

their freedom.

While in some ways an enraging origin story, it's been celebrated as a day of independence, freedom, joy, and

resistance by black Americans since the 1800s. Despite that, many non-black people are barely aware

of its existence. That's changed this year, however. In large part in response to the wave of

protests over the past few weeks, many major companies

across the U.S. have declared Juneteenth a corporate holiday. Companies like Nike, Google,

J.P. Morgan Chase, General Motors, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, and countless others are either

giving employees the day off, closing early, or holding moments of silence. Juneteenth has also been declared a paid

holiday for state employees in New York and Virginia. And I specify that the change this year by

New York and Virginia is making it a paid holiday for government employees because, in fact,

all but three U.S. states already have some form of observance for Juneteenth. Except for

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